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Minutes from the semi-monthly Unicycling Society of America meetings

15 January 2012

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USA Board Meeting Agenda – January 15, 2012

 

I.      The meeting was called to order by Wendy Grzych at 6:11pm

Attending:

President:  Wendy Grzych

Vice President:  Max Schulze

Treasurer:  Hans Mills – not present

Secretary:  Bob Griffin

OOW Editor:  Amanda Grzych

Director:  Joe Lind

Director:  Bonnie Messing – not present

Director:  Nicole Crook – not present

Director:  Scott Wilton

Webmaster:  Aaron Schmitz

Connie Cotter: not present

John Foss: not present

 

 

We were experiencing technical difficulty so we resorted to typing our communications.

 

 

II.            Old Business

  1. IRS update  - Hans – not present

 

 

  1. Unicon
  • The only issue is to ensure everyone going is an active current USA member.

 

  1. NAUCC 2012
  • Still in planning stages
  • Hoping to have site up soon
  • Still July 10 – 15 in Saleen Michigan

 

 

  1. USA Insurance
  • Renewed for another year

 

 

  1. Any active committee work – Connie/Ryan/Carol
  • Rules committee – no report
  • Ryan did a Level Tester Training session this past week
  • On One Wheel – Amanda offered to try getting old versions on the web site;  Amanda needs submissions PLEASE;  it was suggested members submit “couples” pictures for the February issue
  • USA Records – Amanda offered to assist getting all old records on the site as well.
  • Merchandising – we had a lengthy discussion about pins for IRUS levels and if they should be sold.
  • Skill Development Committee – we discussed the possibility of having additional skill levels that are NOT artistic based, as are the current IRUS levels.  We decided to table the discussion until we could meet via Skype voice.
  •  A special meeting to discuss this was proposed.  Wendy will coordinate

 

  1. Teen Business
  • No report

 

 

  1. Affiliated Club Updates – none;  Bonnie was not present

 

 

  1. OOW Submissions
  • Submit to Amanda at Grzych.amanda@gmail.com
  • If every club would have an OOW writer, it would make Amanda’s job easier

 

  1. Current Board Members’ and Chairpersons’ Reports
    1. Wendy, President  - nothing
    2. Max, V-P – nothing
    3. Bob, Secretary – nothing
    4. Hans, Treasurer  - In his absence it was reported that we are up over 800 members again!
    5. Amanda, OOW Editor
  • Nothing we haven’t already discussed

 

  1. AAron, Webmaster  - not present
  2. Joe, Director – not present
  3. Bonnie, Director – not present
  4. Nicole, Director – not present
  5. Scott, Director – no updates

 

IV.          New Business

  1. NAUCC 2013 – TCUC offered to host
  2. Board members for 2013
    1. Need a new secretary since Bob is in his third year.  A few potential candidates were discussed
    2. Amanda will continue with On One Wheel
    3. Wendy suggested that if we lose Bonnie from New York, it would be nice to get someone else from there as well.
    4. Aaron offered to continue as Web Master
  3. Aaron asked about the long-term viability of On One Wheel.  Every month, Amanda has difficulty getting ANY submissions for the publication. We discussed options like Facebook or making it an annual publication instead, frequency of issues.. Currently we are down to only 4 issues a year due to lack of articles and photos.  We need every club to submit at least one article a month for the publication.  Max offered to sort through videos of street and flat and send the best to Amanda once a quarter.

 

V.           Announcements

A.   Upcoming Uni Events

  1. Arizona Muni Weekend
  2. MN Mondo
  3. NAUCC 2012
  4. Butler Weekend – waiting on details from Dave Krack
  5. Additional information can be found on:  http://uniusa.org/events/calendar/

 

  1. Anything else?
  • ???
  • ???

 

 

VI.          Meeting Adjourned:  7:40pm

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I.
The meeting was
called to order at 6:10pm by Wendy Grzych

 

Attending:

President:  Wendy Grzych

                        Vice President:  Max Schulz

                        Treasurer:  Hans Mills

                        Secretary:  Bob Griffin

                        OOW editor:  Amanda Grzych

                        Webmaster:  John Foss – not present

                        Director:  Joe Lind

                        Director:  Bonnie Messing

                        Director:  Nicole Crook

                        Director:  Scott Wilton

                        Aaron Schmitz

 

II.
Old Business

A.   IRS update  - Hans

Wendy got a package with all of the dialog between USA, NY and
Feds.  It appears that we will have to
start over again because time limits have elapsed.

B.   USA website update – Aaron
and Scott

Aaron put a google doc of everything that
needs to be done.  Some pages need to be
written, like Start and Run a Club.  We
could go without them for now.  Scott
talked to Tim about merchandising and using PayPal. 

 

Hans received material, including a check,
from Mel so he can re-open a bank account and a PayPal account.

 

Aaron needs a copy of the NAUCC database to
begin posting for CivicCRM membership. 

 

Wendy asked if we could launch in December or
January.  If we wait until membership is
all set up, then we need to wait until January.

 

We decided to get the new site up in October
as long as someone can write the Start and Run A Club page.

 

Membership registration and payment will come
later.

Amanda asked if OOW will have a page and
Scott confirmed it will.

 

We also need to decide if we want to post all
of our own photos or link to sites like John Foss’s.

 

Aaron asked for help reviewing the pages

 

Wendy asked for them to send Links to the
group so we can provide feedback.

 

Additional discussion was held around the
Events page and who should decide what events get added.  Amanda will help coordinate this and allow

 

C.   Teen Business – Ryan

Wendy asked what happened to all of the OOW that were supposed to
be scanned.  Ryan thinks the box is at
his mothers’ house and will check on them.

 

Ryan sent a Google form to everyone who attended the Teen meeting
at USA in Madison.  He was trying to
collect some basic information and received data from 10 people.

 

He will re-send the form
to everyone who didn’t reply.

 

Tasks he is trying to get teens involved with:

·
assistance scanning and editing pages

·
Assistance for Amanda getting content for OOW

·
Maintaining a records database

 

Once he gets feedback from more teens, he is going to assign them
to groups and try to get it all up by middle of October.

 

D.   NAUCC 2012 update – Wendy

Held first meeting, have venues and schedules
set.  T-Shirt colors picked (shamrock green)

 

E.   Any active committee work
– Connie/Ryan/Carol

 

1.    Skill Levels:  Carol Bricker

Carol is working on IRUS skills and has been trying to expand to
cover more areas.  She needs a volunteer
to take over production and sale of pins.
She suggested lanyards or other ways for riders to display their
levels.  Wendy suggested we need someone
to work with Carol to help her out and keep this rolling.

 

Carol provided a Skills Committee report to Wendy but was not
present.

We decided to table this as a group until she can attend a Skype
meeting/

 

2.    Testing:  Ryan Woessner

He is trying to find the time to set up Skype training as soon as
he gets his personal schedule settled. 

 

If anyone wants to become certified, please contact Ryan Woessner.

 

3.    Rules:  Connie Cotter

Connie was not present but via use of technology, Scott contacted
her via text message and she asked for volunteers to assist with rules.  Those volunteers are:

·
Scott Wilton

·
James Samui

·
Wendy Grzych

·
Amanda Grzych

·
Max Schulze

 

 

III.
Current Board Members’ and Chairpersons’
Reports

A.
Wendy, President: Nothing

B.
Max, V-P:  Nothing

C.
Bob, Secretary:  Nothing

D.
Hans, Treasurer: he needs information on
new/renewing USA members from Madison.
He received a file today and hasn’t had time to get through it all.  If he doesn’t see what he needs, he will
contact Scott.

 

E.
Amanda, OOW Editor:  Received only 3 things for OOW.  Wendy asked for all clubs to submit an
article and photos by the end of the week.

 

F.
John, Webmaster :  not present

G.
Joe, Director: not present

 

H.
Bonnie, Director:  Carol and Bonnie are planning to contact all
clubs in the next few weeks.  They
received a new club request from the web and she will respond to them in a few
weeks.  Bonnie is trying to finalize a
template to use for sending anyone who requests info about starting a club.

 

I.
Nicole, Director:  not present

 

J.
Scott, Director:  nothing

 

 

 

IV.
New Business

A.
Hosting
USA website(s)

Scott
and Aaron need the basic DreamHost account set up for the new site.  We also need to decide on what domain names
to retain and who owns what.

·
Unicyclingusa.org

·
Unicyclingusa.com

·
naucc.com

·
uniusa.org

·
uniusa.org

·
unicyclingusa.org

·
unicycleusa.org

 

Bonnie
motioned to budget $300 to cover all expenses for the next year.  Vote was unanimous in favor.

 

No
final decision was made on what urls to maintain.  Wendy asked that unicycling.com be redirected
to unicycling.org.  Scott confirmed this
could be done.

 

B.
Team
USA UNICON XVI qualification

Wendy
said that it appears we will have lots of openings for Unicon so anyone going
should apply for every event they want to compete in.

 

C.
USA
Logo

Hans
and Wendy have been working on some options for new potential logos for
USA.  Bonnie offered to contact the
person that has done some work for NY recently.

 

We
will need apparel for Unicon so it may be nice to decide on a new logo before
ordering.

 

 

V.
Announcements

A.
Upcoming Uni Events

1.    NYC: 

·
350 attendees; 

·
Dates are same for next year – Labor day weekend

 

2.    California Muni Weekend

3.    UNICON XVI

4.    NAUCC 2012:  Max asked who was organizing trials.  Wendy said they really need help with this.  Redford had someone help at Madison to learn
the ropes but they need lots more assistance designing lines.

 

B.
Anything else?

We are in limbo for membership
registration since the old mailbox is dead.
Hans will send out an address for us to use for now to send USA
membership registrations.

 

      Next
meeting November 6 at 6pm Eastern

 

VI.
Meeting Adjourned at
6:59pm

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  1. Meeting called to order by President, Connie Cotter at 7:06pm at which point we proceeded on to voting for officers.

  1. Affirmation/Voting of Officers

    1. President
      1. Wendy Grzych was nominated by Caroline Alexander and seconded by Hans Mills.  Bill Gilbertson made a motion to accept. Wendy as president and Scott Arnold Seconded.  All voted in favor of Wendy.

(At this point, Wendy ran the remainder of the meeting.)

    1. Vice President
      1. Max Schulze was nominated by and seconded by Ryan Woessner.  All voted in favor
    1. Treasurer
      1. Carol Alexander nominated Hans Mills.  Joanne Egan seconded.  All voted in favor
    1. Secretary
      1. Bob Griffin was nominated by Dianne Gilbertson and seconded by Hans Mills.  All voted in favor
    1. Directors
  • Ryan nominated Scott Wilton.  Natalie Lanzatella seconded.

All voted in favor.

  • Max Schulze was nominated by Ryan Woessner and seconded by Hans Mills.  Gilbertson made motion to close the nominations.  All voted in favor

  1. Old Business

    1. USA insurance – renewed for another year
    2. USA website status – we have plans to finish off the new website and include registration/renewal; Wendy asked for anyone willing to help out.  See Aaron if you want to help.
    3. USA IRS update – we have been working to get the 5013C completed.  We will resume this process
    4. Committees
      1. Rulebook – Connie Cotter reported that Robin set up the database of rules but it did not get finished.  We need to work on completion of this.  Connie does not want to be director of the Rulebook Committee.  Wendy asked for volunteers but no one stepped up.
          1. Max Schulze – REDACTED@aol.com offered to help out.
      1. Skill Development – Carol is looking for help in this area and this will be part of our first meeting.
      2. Skill Level – Ryan will be certifying testers later in the week.
    1. Other board business – none
  1. Current Board Members’ Reports
    1. Connie Cotter, President – nothing
    2. Tammy Crook, Vice President – nothing
    3. Bob Griffin, Secretary – nothing
    4. Mel Zeller, Treasurer – $14,638 in the us account and printed reports are available
    5. Barb Janowiecki, Director – nothing to report
    6. Bonnie Messing, Director – not present.
    7. Joe Lind, Director – nothing to report
    8. Nicole Crook, Director  - nothing to report

  1. Current Appointed Positions’ Reports

    1. John Foss, Webmaster – holding in there;  Working on new site.

    2. Amanda Grzych, OOW Editor – Amanda mentioned she desperately needs content.   She asked EVERYONE to send in anything.  Articles, pictures, videos, anything.
    3. Greg Muellerleile, Merchandise Manager – nothing to report; not present
    4. Mel Zeller, Membership Data Coordinator – TCUS was largest, RTUC was second with 178; Hutchison was third.  A lot of new members and clubs are coming in.
    5. Bonnie Messing and Carol Bricker, Affiliate Coordinators – previously reported
    6. Carol Bricker, IUF Representative – nothing to report
    7. Ryan Woessner, Teen Leadership Mentor – team meeting immediately following this
    8. Carol Bricker, Historian – nothing to report

  1. New Business

    1. NAUCC 2012 – RTUC has offered to host at the same gyms as before in Saline Michigan.  They have already gathered permissions from some sites.    July 10 – 15.  The dates ARE set.
    2. UNICON 2012, Northern Italy – Talk to Ryann if you are curious about qualifying.  Early registration is coming up soon.
    3. Anything else
      1. Bill Gilbertson mentioned that scholarships will be handed out and the meeting that was scheduled for earlier today will be held later.
      2. Ryan offered to speak to anyone about UNICON

  1. Meeting Adjourned at 7:28